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Radio 2001: In 2001, I made 5 prerecorded radio programs for "97.9, Pittsburgh Pirates, Stealers of the Airwaves" & burned them to CD-R. The 1st 20 tracks here are from the 5th of these: "Us Animals - Part 1". This was the most elaborately edited one & had a laboriously assembled combination of such things as a record of repetitive phrases meant to 'teach' (or torment) a pet bird into imitating combined with other things. The last 3 tracks are also the last 3 tracks...
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Piano Illiterature - Volume 7: In 1998, my friend etta cetera compiled a publication called "Edge Wise" that was about last words. For it, I contributed the longest word that I knew of at the time: the chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein, a 1,913-letter enzyme with 267 amino acids. Thanks to "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words" for that one. The idea was that instead of saying something pithy, I imagined myself saying something...
Topics: piano, electronic music, experimental music, sky-diving, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Titin, Elisa...
Source: Titin, the movie
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“mm 72 presents: COUGHING (abridged)”: As I wrote in my email announcement of this mm theme: “ Yes, coughing, the bane of concerts. Please bring recordings of concerts in which coughing can be heard. I doubt that I’ll find any relevant movies between now & then. I’m not even sure I can find any audio recordings. If nothing else, we can improvise coughing together. I know this sounds like one of those things that only I would find musically stimulating & amusing but...
Topics: mm, coughing, november 30 2016, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ryan Broughman, Unfinished Symphonies,...
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" 2018.06.18 duet with Tom DiVenti — Eastern Pennsylvania — via FaceTime ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Tom DiVenti, samples,...
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"HiTEC 033 Z": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, October 25 2008,...
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" 2018.06.26 duet with Jason Belcher - Pittsburgh, PA - in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Jason Belcher, melodica,...
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"Robopaths": A robopath is a person who doesn't think for themselves, who acts in accordance with provided programs &, as such, is dangerous & pernicious because they don't personally assume responsibility. I think that most people are robopaths & that they're the enablers of the malignant megalomania of the people who manipulate them. This movie is a pastiche supporting this opinion, largely centered on an exemplary robopath: Adolph Eichmann. It's one of the most...
Topics: robopaths, untertan, Adolph Eichmann, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE
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May 7, 2019
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"HiTEC 067 Y - Systems & Processes III": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) started out as a group of musicians & dancers invited by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE to try to collectively conduct thought experiments in an attempt to create a group product that wouldn't be based on specific physical instructions. Initially, 53 people were solicited as of Monday, August 25, 2008, & possibly 33 declined (most by just not replying) or dropped out; & 22 were...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Jon Rubin, November 4...
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"Coal & tENT: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & Coal Hornet discuss IMPROVisation: 2019.11.24": Coal Hornet had been living across the street from me for 3 years before I met him. I was certainly surprised & delighted to then discover that he was a Free Jazz multi-instrumentalist improvisor & has been since 1968. How fortunate could I be? I quickly arranged for us to play & record a duet together on June 7, 2018, as part of my "365" project. We played...
Topics: Coal Hornet, Andrew Wleklinski, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free jazz, deaf people and music,...
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"365": I like to be productive. I decided that I'd shoot a short movie of me playing (M)Usic every day of 2018. At 1st, I was imagining playing a short piano solo everyday. This would stimulate me to practice more & challenge me to try to make the short solos very varied. Then I decided that it would be more fun to play different instruments. I collect instruments, getting them cheaply when I can find them. So I get them from thrift stores, yard sales, pawn shops. ...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, 2018, experimental music, experimental usic, improvisation, duets,...
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"HiTEC 037 G": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Unfinished Symphonies,...
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"tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Interviewed by Kent Bye February 16, 2002E.V.": I've been preoccupied with creating fresh contexts for creativity since at least 1975 when I was 21. This led to my creating neologisms to explain myself & my activities. Since then, I've declared myself a "Homonymphonemiac", a neologism I've coined to combine "homonymns" + "nymphomaniac" + "phonemes" to mean a person who obsessively 'gets off' on making puns. ...
Topics: interview, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Kent Bye, anarchism, philosophy, neologisms, free thinking
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"The Ticket that Exploded Who Unit? rehearsal January 18, 2020": When I was 15, probably in the summer of 1969, I heard the band Soft Machine's song "Hope for Happiness" on Baltimore rock radio & loved it. As I recall, most Baltimore radio was abysmal so I found Soft Machine to be of exceptional quality. It wasn't until perhaps 5 years later that I realized that the band had gotten their name from a William S. Burroughs novel. I read the book & was astounded. ...
Topics: The Ticket that Exploded, The Ticket, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ben Opie, Roger Dannenberg, Jeff...
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"1st Non-Existent International Neoist Apartment Festival in the Year 000": in Adelaide, South Australia from Monday, March 20th, 000 'til Saturday, March 25th, 000 (with additional action on Tuesday & Wednesday, April 4 & 5, 000 & Thursday, June 8, 000) [etta cetera & I arrived in Adelaide on Sunday, March 19th & were met at the airport by festival conspirators Karen Eliot & Jen. I never saw Jen again in connection with any neoist activities. A vegetarian...
Topics: neoism, anti-neoism, Adelaide, Australia, 2000, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, radio, etta cetera,...
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"HiTEC 049 A": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Hyla Willis, Jonathan...
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Radio 1980: After TESTES-3 & VD-RADIO (see "Radio 1979"), this group of collaborators moved onto (301)962-0210 on the 1st anniversary of B.U.T.N. on January, 1980, with a public event at the Proposal Gallery in Baltimore. Various telephone options were beginning to be introduced like call forwarding & call waiting & we decided to experiment with them. For the Proposal Gallery event we had the calls forwarded to the gallery. (301)962-0210 became much more technically...
Topics: (301)962-0210, B.U.T.N., tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, telephones, experimental music, radio, WJHU
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"Bob Cobbing / Movie Trivia / Hypnopedagogy": I've sometimes refrained from uploading the movies of mine that I think are the best in the hope that I'll get paid for presenting them in in-person appearances. As I've gotten older & my screening opportunities have dwindled to almost nothing it seems that it's time to put some of these online before they disappear from history altogether. 4 of the most ambitious 16mm films I made were "Subtitles (16mm version)" (still not...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Bob Cobbing, experimental film, direct-on-film, found footage, 16mm
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"HiTEC 017 E": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, Johan Nystrom, Stuart Anderson, August 31 2008,...
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"HiTEC 019 C": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, Johan Nystrom, Kenny Haney, September 4 2008,...
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Radio 1979: This series of recordings that're labeled: "Radio (+ a year)" is the most complete selection of my (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE"s) endeavors in radio. It begins in 1979 not because I was working with radio, per se, but because I was working with an audio interactive medium akin to radio but more accessible for uncensored participation to the general public. From the very beginning my interest was in free speech, music that doesn't get enough airplay, & more...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY-a-cONVENIENCE, telephones, B.U.T.N., TESTES-3, VD-RADIO, experimental music
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" 2018.06.30 duet with Jeff Weston - Pittsburgh, PA - in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Jeff Weston, contrabass,...
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"HiTEC 039 full group": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. ...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Johan Nystrom, Hyla...
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"HiTEC 015 A": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Hyla Willis, Ben...
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"HiTEC 005 D": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Josh Tanzer, Tony...
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" 2018.06.17 duet with Eric Lipsky — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Eric Lipsky, cello,...
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" 2018.06.11 duet with Alex Stanton — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Alex Stanton, guitar,...
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" 2018.06.15 duet with Warren Burt — Australia — via Skype ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Warren Burt, iPad...
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"HiTEC 071 'Full' Group": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) started out as a group of musicians & dancers invited by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE to try to collectively conduct thought experiments in an attempt to create a group product that wouldn't be based on specific physical instructions. Initially, 53 people were solicited as of Monday, August 25, 2008, & possibly 33 declined (most by just not replying) or dropped out; & 22 were left participating. ...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Julian Krishnamurti,...
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" 2018.06.12 duet with Roger Dannenberg — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Roger Dannenberg,...
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"Driving Long Distance with MM 26": In 2011, I started a series of (m)usician's meetings at my house & elsewhere to discuss, listen to, & play (m)usic. Ahh.. the simple pleasures of life. In 2013, a group of the regular attendees released a CD of samples of our work. I think the CD is excellent. On March 28, 2020 Vision, I had to drive long distance to the burial of the ashes of a relative. They didn't die from COVID-19. Because of the PANDEMIC PANIC & the...
Topics: MM 26, music, experimental music, experimental usic, Low Classical Usic, Unfinished Symphonies,...
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" 2018.06.10 duet with Kenny Haney — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Kenny Haney, banjo,...
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Radio 1983: During this time from 1979 to 1983, my friends & I had become somewhat notorious in Baltimore. As "Tim Ore" I'd premiered the "B.T.O.U.C." (BalTimOre Underground Club) & had an article about in the front page of an early edition of the Baltimore Sun, one of the 2 daily papers at the time. The 1st track here is an actual news report on this event on a local easy listening station. I'd been invited by WJHU DJ Steve Stec (see the "Radio 1979"...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, RAN of NAR, Fingernail on a Blackboard, WJHU, experimental music
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"HiTEC 007 B": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ben Opie, Spat Cannon,...
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"HiTEC 057 H": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Josh Beyer, Red Bob,...
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“7th Annual Polish Hill May Day Parade 2016”: Polish Hill is a small neighborhood where an unusually large group of politically minded creative people live. Every year we have a May Day Parade to celebrate worker’s gains & spring. The day is typically preceded by a cabaret the night before. The parade goes all the way through the neighborhood & ends at a park where there’s food & alcohol available for free or donation, a maypole, & a baseball game. For the last 5...
Topics: May Day, parade, anarchy
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Radio 1995: In 1995 I was living briefly in NYC to organize Gen Ken Montgomery's substantial sound art archive. While I was there I was also presenting a screening at the Segue Foundation. Partially to promote the screening & partially to promote my still fairly new "Usic minus the square root of negative one" record & mainly just to have fun on the radio with my friend Fabio Roberti, I went on the "Free Form Irritainment with Fabio Esq." program. This turned into a...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Fabio Roberti, WFMU
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"Spectral Evidence": This was shot from September 12-21, 2011 in Cape Cod, Salem, & Cape Ann, Massachussetts. I learned about the idea of "spectral evidence" in Salem where dream 'evidence' was enough to convict people during the Witch Trials. Sociopathic young women could claim that they saw a person they knew with a cat in their dream - thusly 'proving' that the accused had a 'familiar', an animal that assisted with their witchcraft. I applied the term as a title...
Topics: Massachussetts, Cape Cod, Cape Ann, Salem, spectral evidence, Vermin Supreme, tENTATIVELY a...
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Piano Illiterature - Volume 3: 2004.07.16 Persisting Resisting - 7:23 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & Michael Pestel Michael Pestel is one of my oldest & most continual collaborators in Pittsburgh. This despite his having moved to Middletown, CT, around 2004. We met in 1997, a little over a year after I moved to Pittsburgh & we almost immediately started working on projects together. In 2004 I visited him in Middletown & I conceived of the 2nd of what I've come to call the...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, piano, Low Classical Usic
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"HiTEC 009 A": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Johan Nystrom, Hyla...
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"HiTEC 047 A": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Johan Nystrom, Hyla...
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Radio 1999: In 1999, I cofounded the "Street Rats" under the name of "RATical" with Will Rat for Iraq & Rita Rodentia. We were an anarchist activist group - or, as I prefer, an IMP Activist group. Having driven to Boston to attend the version there of the international June 18th Day of Resistance Against Capitalism (in this case, the "Carnival Against Capital"), we met Dan the Bagel-Man while protesting in the financial district. He hooked us up with Chuck U....
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, etta cetera, Rita Rodentia, Street Rat Liberation Front, No...
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Feb 11, 2020
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"The Ticket that Exploded @ the library": When I was 15, probably in the summer of 1969, I heard the band Soft Machine's song "Hope for Happiness" on Baltimore rock radio & loved it. As I recall, most Baltimore radio was abysmal so I found Soft Machine to be of exceptional quality. It wasn't until perhaps 5 years later that I realized that the band had gotten their name from a William S. Burroughs novel. I read the book & was astounded. It was shocking.....
Topics: The Ticket that Exploded, The Ticket, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ben Opie, Roger Dannenberg, Jeff...
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Apr 21, 2019
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"HiTEC 013 C": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, James Gyre, Kenny...
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Dec 4, 2019
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"Morse Code": Some people call the telegraph the '1st electronic instrument' — yes, before the Teleharmonium, before the Theremin, before the Ondes Martenot, before the Trautonium, before the Moog there was the Telegraph. Some might balk at calling it a musical instrument since it wasn't made for that purpose but it did involve electricity that, in some versions, produced sound. The history of telegraphy is more complex than many may realize insofar as it went through many...
Topics: telegraph, telegraphy, Samuel Morse, Morse Code, Elektra Code Course, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE,...
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Apr 27, 2019
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"HiTEC 041 F": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Unfinished Symphonies,...
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Apr 24, 2019
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"HiTEC 029 A": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Johan Nystrom, Ben...
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Apr 24, 2019
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"HiTEC 027 C": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, James Gyre, Kenny...
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Oct 26, 2017
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"Ros Bandt, April 26, 2000, May 19, 2000": From mid-March to mid-June, 2000, my partner etta cetera & I travelled in Malaysia (briefly) & Australia (for most of the time) where we were very busy & where we met a plethora of interesting folks. Ros Bandt was one of those & we were fortunate to be able to shoot footage of her demonstrating her instrument playing excellence, discussing her many projects, & to be taken by her to a site where she'd made recordings...
Topics: Ros Bandt, sound art, experimental music, site specific performance, sound sculpture, Melbourne,...
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Oct 6, 2019
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"I Told You So": I was invited by Mr. Funky to contribute something no longer than 5 minutes to an event about "the future" at the Glitter Box Theater inside the Bloomcraft Building on September 28, 2019. The Bloomcraft Building was, as I understood it, originally conceived of as an ambitious cooperative paid for by one individual who was to be reimbursed in order for the building to be owned collectively. This isn't what happened & the owner has sold the building. ...
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Dec 6, 2012
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Radio 2004: I was in Spain to present a program at the CCCB (Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona). Due to the total unreliability of a 'friend' of mine I was forced to find a free place to stay very much at the last minute - carrying a large amount of sound gear that I was barely strong enough to lift. Thanks to a friend, I got connected to a fellow anarchist named DJ Cutter who had a program on the long-surviving pirate station, Radio Bronka. DJ Cutter & I recorded the 4 sets that...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, DJ Cutter, Radio Bronka, pirate radio, Steve Kurtz, John Cage,...
